The family of Lincoln City Football Club legend Graham Taylor has revealed the touching support they have received following his death.

Taylor's loved ones were inundated with cards and letters of support after the former Imps boss and player died last year at the age of 72.

And his wife Rita and two daughters said he would have been proud to have a street named after him in Lincoln after Graham Taylor Way was unveiled at the Ermine today, Monday, October 22.

His family and former players attended a ceremony to unveil the street sign bearing his name as part of a brand new housing estate of affordable and social housing built by Lindum for Waterloo Housing.

After the ceremony, Graham Taylor's daughter Joanne Glover said it was a fitting tribute to the man who was passionate about community and remembering his roots.

She said: "It feels very special.

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The family of the former Lincoln City boss the late Graham Taylor, unveiled a street sign after a road in Lincoln was named after him. His wife Rita Taylor (right) and daughters Joanne Glover (centre) and Karen Colley (left) also planted an oak tree at the end of the road named in his honour.

"He was born not so far away in Worksop area and he would probably think of himself as a Lincolnshire Yellowbelly. He was a big believer in remembering your roots so he would have been really proud today.

"I think the fact that the city still wants to remember and recognise Dad's achievements at the football club is wonderful.

"Dad was such a passionate believer in getting out into the community, so I know that it would have made him proud too."

Mrs Glover added that the support and tributes that they had received since her father passed away had been a great comfort to the family

Family and friends of the former Lincoln City manager Graham Taylor gathered to pay tribute to him as a brand new Lincoln Street (Graham Taylor Way) was named in his honour. Graham Taylor's wife Rita Taylor (2nd from left) ,his daughters Joanne Glover (centre right) and Karen Colley (far right) with Sylvia Loxley wife of the late Bert Loxley who was club physio under Taylor.

"The letters and cards that we received after he died, the tributes that were in the newspapers - there were people that had just come across him for a short period who wrote lovely letters.

"What was really comforting was that they weren't all football memories they were memories of dad as a person.

"Dad who had stopped and spoken to them, Dad had helped them with something, but most of all he had given them the time and they had remembered that - time is a precious commodity these days and people remember his generosity with his time and his spirit and kindness and that has helped us enormously."

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Family and friends of the former Lincoln City manager Graham Taylor gathered to pay tribute to him as a brand new Lincoln Street was named in his honour. Former players from the time, joined Graham Taylor's daughters Joanne Glover and Karen Colley and his widow Rita Taylor as they planted an oak tree and then unveiled a new road sign for Graham Taylor Way.

Dennis Leigh who was at Lincoln from 69-76 was Graham's first signing as a manager.

Mr Leigh said: "He [Graham] seemed ahead of his time, the way he thought about things, what he wanted to do with the football club, how he wanted to include the public.

"As far as being part of the community he was an ambassador for the club. He was the one who actually brought more people to the football club and was passionate about what he did and translated that into the way he wanted to play. I am very proud to have been part of it, who wouldn't be."

Phil Hubbard, who played from 1966 to 1971 and then again in 1975-76, said: "He brought me back when they got promotion. He was ahead of his time. In those days you weren't even allowed on the pitch before the game to warm up so most teams didn't bother - but because we weren't allowed on the pitch we warmed up in the changing rooms.

"For 20 minutes he would have us bouncing up and down and jumping. When he wanted us to warm up in the changing rooms we thought what's going on? but that's how far he was ahead of his time , he really was.

"Going around the community - going round to see kids in the hospitals - that's the sort of thing we did, even on Christmas day, getting into the community and getting the community involved with the football club."

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Family and friends of the former Lincoln City manager Graham Taylor gathered to pay tribute to him as a brand new Lincoln Street was named in his honour. Graham Taylor's daughters Joanne Glover and Karen Colley and his widow Rita Taylor also planted an oak tree at the end of Graham Taylor Way.

Vice chair of the club Roger Bates said that Graham Taylor was the reason that he had fallen in love with Lincoln City.

He said: "to say Graham played an important part in the club's history is something of an understatement so we are delighted to be here to see this today.

"Those years in the mid 70s were truely memorable and it has stuck with me ever since. I don't think when I was stood on those terraces back then that I would be stood here talking to you as vice chairman of the club.

"Graham I first met in the mid 70s when he presented me with a trophy after a festival and Im sure my reaction then is a similar reactionthat people have today when they meet Danny and Nicky [Cowley].

Opening of Graham Taylor Way in Lincoln by his wife Rita Taylor and daughters Karen Colley and Joanne Glover.

"I was awestruck I couldn''t believe that I had met Graham Taylor Danny and Graham had many things in common - they were quite young managers although incredibly looking back now Graham was 10 years younger than Danny was when he came to the club - but they both believed in the community - getting that connection with the community, getting out in the community and that is something as a football club we hold importnat as well.

"We want to be more than just simply a football club in the city of Lincoln, we want to be a football club that is PART of the city of Lincoln and that contributes to the people and to the development of what is a fantastic city.

"So there's some real synergy's from Graham's days through to the modern day."